Religion

ISBN: 9781841714554
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1076
This book studies the royal festivals in the Egyptian Late Predynastic period and the First Dynasty. (The chronological beginning here is the Naqada IId period and the author includes a brief account of royal festivals in the contemporary Lower... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783525536391
Published by : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
A catalogue of forty Egyptian bronze figures, all depicting Egyptian deities, which were found in Israel and Palestine and are now held in the collection of Universität Freiburg Schweiz . Fully referenced entries discuss the history and provena... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931446044
Published by : Gazelle Book Services Ltd
This brief examination of Egyptian religion, as opposed to mythology, argues that the ancient Egyptians believed in only one god and that each of the many divinities were created to represent or symbolise different aspects of that one supreme deit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110168846
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
This substantial volume forms an A-Z of ancient Egyptian religion, featuring gods, temples, towns, Pharaohs, hieroglyphs, finds, animals, burial rituals, monuments, symbols, astrology, priests, texts and much more. Many entries are lengthy and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780952423317
Published by : Northgate Publishers
My Heart My Mother looks at many different aspects of Egyptian religion from the role of Hathor-Sekhmet, the serpent eye goddess, in the cult of Osiris, to the reliefs in the temple at Abydos, and more general discussions of temple life, ancest... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783447043243
Published by : Harrassowitz Verlag

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ISBN: 9781898723721
Published by : Drake International Services
Volume: 1982
This accessible study, now available in a revised second edition, explores the ways in which religion permeated every aspect of ancient Egyptian life and shows that some religious practices have survived in some form or other to the present day. D... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801489549
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
Christiane Zivie-Coche, a distinguished Egyptologist surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780750932622
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
A study of the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. The book takes the form of a gazatteer with separate entries for each of the major deities, details of relevant mythology, characteristics of the God and details of sanctuaries and places with... .... Learn More